I think people just refuse to even try UA because just spamming DoTs on people like a retard doesn't yield the same results as it did in past seasons.

Now you actually have to do more to do dmg???? go figure

The reason Affliction is sucking atm isn't because the spec is broken. It's sucking right now because of the same reason Boomkins and Fire Mages are garbage right now, that being multi target pressure and 10 second burst isn't viable because of the nature of CC, healing, and defensive CD's in game right now. Healing and CC would be the biggest offenders.

Healing is over the top and getting the entire team to 30% health isn't even close to a kill anymore. One Healing Stream totem with a Riptide and 2 GHW's and the ENTIRE team is topped off. Healers don't stay OOM since spirit has been buffed as a stat. In a raid environment the change to Intellect and Spirit works out because healers are almost always casting, so the smaller mana pools need to regen faster. In Arenas though, getting a break of a few seconds isn't that rare with the way CC works right now. Mana regen is through the roof and keeping a healer OOM is nearly impossible.

CC is the other problem. Affliction has burst now, but it takes more than the 3-4 second burst windows that are needed to kill something now. On top of that, you need to be casting the whole time. In that time frame, you are almost 100% guaranteed to be peeled.

The only way to "fix" Aff (because it's top in PvE atm) would be to take all our damage away from DoTs and put it towards Haunt and MG. If they nerf healing output we'll actually be able to rot teams again which would put Affliction in a great position.

The reason Affliction is sucking atm isn't because the spec is broken. It's sucking right now because of the same reason Boomkins and Fire Mages are garbage right now, that being multi target pressure and 10 second burst isn't viable because of the nature of CC, healing, and defensive CD's in game right now. Healing and CC would be the biggest offenders.

Healing is over the top and getting the entire team to 30% health isn't even close to a kill anymore. One Healing Stream totem with a Riptide and 2 GHW's and the ENTIRE team is topped off. Healers don't stay OOM since spirit has been buffed as a stat. In a raid environment the change to Intellect and Spirit works out because healers are almost always casting, so the smaller mana pools need to regen faster. In Arenas though, getting a break of a few seconds isn't that rare with the way CC works right now. Mana regen is through the roof and keeping a healer OOM is nearly impossible.

CC is the other problem. Affliction has burst now, but it takes more than the 3-4 second burst windows that are needed to kill something now. On top of that, you need to be casting the whole time. In that time frame, you are almost 100% guaranteed to be peeled.

The only way to "fix" Aff (because it's top in PvE atm) would be to take all our damage away from DoTs and put it towards Haunt and MG. If they nerf healing output we'll actually be able to rot teams again which would put Affliction in a great position.

+rep another smart guy (like me hehehehe)

justchecking, on 10 November 2014 - 11:58 PM, said:

Going to blizzcon looking for a fight is like going to the official wow arena forums for pvp advice :)

Renaissance_Man, on 31 July 2013 - 04:31 AM, said:

If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden, and you, I would shoot you twice.

At least blizzard are beginning to listen and taking a step in the right direction. It's beyond me why they left it so late to change chaos wave considering it was far beyond what normal damage should be in arena, you should never just be able to accidently kill somebody you are not even targeting. However demo warlocks are not the only thing that needs to be changed. Lets just hope blizzard dont just stop here and take a deeper look in to what needs to change, Arena has turned into a game where just by blinking or using a global when your at 80% hp you can cost yourself the game.

I'm fine with chaos bolt doing the same damage because first: its not AOE, It can be interrupted, AMS, cloak etc, but chaos wave was physical damage and AOE. Only way to avoid that is to LOS pillar bug it....lol. Good day for DKs though. TY blizz.

Is anyone else besides me think that while mage warrior and i guess feral burst is high

shadow priests REALLY need some attention as well?

Yep. Enhance shamans and Rets during CDs can be pretty over the top as well, I mean if we're being fair compared to chaos wave, 150k Stormblasts are not out of the question, and that crits a lot more than chaos wave.

Frost DK damage is also pretty crazy after the PvP power buff.

I really hope Blizzard looks at CD stacking, I think a lot of crazy imbalanced burst during tiny CC windows could be prevented by properly balancing everyones cooldowns so they can't all be instantly popped at once.